OT County Plow

Anonymous-0 · Feb 5, 2011

Notice the snow plasterd against the trees. As you can see the trees are are not that close to the road. Plowing on the fly I suspect. We lost a mailbox and post a few years ago to such plowing, probably the same driver.

les mack · Feb 5, 2011

remember please they don't get paid worth a hoot and every Tom, DICK and Harry is Bi---ing that their road should be plowed first!

JayinNY · Feb 5, 2011

Sometimes its the weight of the snow coming off the wing hitting the mail box that breakes them off, not a direct hit by the plow driver with the wing.

VicS · Feb 5, 2011

I have been that Driver, you should try it, the Snow mesmerizes you after dark, and you can't tell where you are. With 3 rigs running all I got done was pull them out with the backhoe, and weld them back together. Now I get to stay in and reflect. Vic

jm. · Feb 5, 2011

The very short of it be happy you did get YOUR road plowed...Some people still waiting.

Brad Gyde · Feb 5, 2011

Today we got close to 6 unexpected inches here (southeast lower Michigan) so we went out on the snowmobiles..

Wednesday, we rode close to 100 "road miles" checking things out.. Most roads were pretty rough.. Only plowing done at that point was obviously done by the local residents.

Tonight, we rode most of the same roads we did Wednesday.. I was very surprised to see all the roads that were still not plowed!! I know some was from today's snowfalls, but there was still a few stretches that were plowed out quite narrow, or still had pretty deep drifts in em.

No plowing is kinda nice for riding sleds, but becomes a real pain when ya can't get where you wanna be in the truck.. OH, and we have some plowers that do it like in the picture too.

Brad

JDseller · Feb 5, 2011

You want the snow piled right up at the edge of the road??/ Your plow driver knows he needs to get it as far as he can off the road for the next go around. We even use wings on the side to get even further.

LeoinMI · Feb 5, 2011

Having plowed snow for several years at our local airport and roads for the county,..I can say that it is not uncommon for a plow driver to pitch snow out that far. Around here the snow gets pretty heavy due to "Lake Effect". You have to have some speed to keep that snow from spilling back onto the roadway and to pitch it high enough to go over existing banks. Unfortunately mailboxes become victims of the heavy snow hitting them. Hard to see when you have a big "V" plow on the front of your truck with high winds to boot.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 5, 2011

Have you ever seen a plow truck go by at 10 MPH? Have you noticed that the graders have pushed the windrow 4 or 5 ft down into the ditch a few days after the main roads have been cleared? It's all for the same reason. So you don't have a giant windrow on the side of the road that would cause drifting and poor visibilty. It also makes room for next snow fall. The farther they can throw the snow, the better, as it saves a lot of work and extra passes to move the snow over. The blades are designed that way too. Way more curve than a blade for dirt and a wide flare for the snow to fly further. The drivers try to slow down for mail boxes and driveways etc. but they usually have a lot of roads to do and occassional there's a mishap. Fixing a mailbox the odd time is better than having to clear the roads by your self. Dave

IOWA NORTHEAST · Feb 5, 2011

You should get the drivers name, and call him, and thank him for what he does,,,,, wait until he gets some sleep first.

Those guys don't know how to run them plows, ask anybody, if us experts were to run the plows there would be no gravel in the ditches, and every road would be plowed first.

They need to take every flake off the road, but do not scrape the gravel off, and above all, Plow the road before I clean my driveway, not afterwards. There are only nine hundred miles of road in my county, why can't they cordinate it so no one has to go back out and clean the windrow off our already cleared off driveways, it isn't all that hard to do.

That is a very simple thing runing a plow to suit every persons demands, I can't understand why those drivers just don't get it? If they would only ask me how to do it, I could explain how they should run it, as I know everything, if you don't believe me, just ask me.

I have several friends that run the plows, and they can tell you of people ranting at them. If you workrd for the public in any manner, you could understand a lot better. Don't get me wrong, some drivers are not good at all, and get the same pay.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 5, 2011

Hey guy's I wasn't complaining as much as it must seemingly appear. The county uses our road to get from the garage to the city so we have several trucks and graders run through here everyday. And as long as they are going through they generally have the blade down, so we do get cleaned soon. But there appears to be just one truck that with most snows really flies through here and I am just saying the packed snow on the tree is evidence. And by the way, it isn't fun trying to replace a post set in concrete and the ground is frozen. I have better things to do with my time too!

Anonymous-0 · Feb 6, 2011

The mailbox is still standing. Maybe the one truck that goes faster is the one designated to throw the snow the farthest and has the most experienced driver to do it? Dave

Nebraska Cowman · Feb 6, 2011

Your mailbox is awful close to the road. And I can't see as you have shoveled around it at all. That is one of my pet peeves. People that won't keep there mailbox cleared away. If I was a carrier I would drive on by.

willie in mn · Feb 6, 2011

From here it looks like a good plowing job, no big ridge next to road to drift in during next storm.
My snow plowing situation. Live on a lakeshore, lots of year-arounders, some summer cabins, nothing on other side of road for approx 1 mile. Our 1 man township maintenance department always plows the opposite side of road first, grader with 16 ft blade plus wing, so 3/4 of the snow gets pushed off into ditch, gets our side on the return. I use tractor & loader to clean my & 3 neighbor's driveways, including the road about 50 feet upstream. That way when he gets to us, he has empty blade & nothing to dump in driveways. He will even stop & wait for me if I happen to be out there when he comes by.
About mailboxes- county policy is that when a road gets upgraded, repaved, widened etc, everyone gets the new style "swing away" posts. Then if it happens to get "bumpsed" by the plow, it just swings away & returns to where it was.
Spring is coming, was 39° here yseterday.
Willie

Tom from Ontario · Feb 6, 2011

The fellows around here do a great job and try to respect people's property. They still take off our mailbox about 2 or 3 times per winter, but so what? I've run those things too and I did not do as good a job as the fellows that are on our route. They run tandem dump trucks and are usually hitting about 25 mph.

rrlund · Feb 6, 2011

Wish they did here. They've got no respect at all for a 5 strand barbed wire fence. Now that they've got it burried,they'll come along about 3 days before it warms up for good and they'll try to push it back even farther. You can't have anything nice around here!

Ultradog MN · Feb 6, 2011

Swing away mail box is probably your best answer.
one example of a swing away. Im sure there are other brands

Anonymous-0 · Feb 6, 2011

I dont know what yer cryin about. Looks to me like you got it easy there. Maybe you outta plow it yerself?

homebuilt · Feb 6, 2011

i don't see nothing wrong there. heck i haven't seen my mailbox post in over a month. the road banks are higher than my mailbox.

buickanddeere · Feb 6, 2011

I usually take the snow blower and clear 50+ft up and down the shoulder from the mailbox.
Haven't lost the mailbox here in 7 years to the snowplough. Although there was the time I put one tractor wheel down in the ditch and couldn't get out.
Mrs B&D was pulling with the truck and got into some good traction on the bare pavement. Gave it full throttle in low lock. And dragged the tractor, blower and myself while screaming stop over the almost new mailbox and post.

Rollie NE PA · Feb 6, 2011

I plowed snow for 34 years, County roads. Different types of snow come off the plow at different volocities when going at the same speed. Heavy wet slush will do more damage than a dry snow.
Sometimes you have to get the snow back as far as you can so you have room for the next snow fall.
In PA your mail box is considered an encroachment on the Public Right of Way.
Make sure your mail box door is always closed as I have seen slush go in the open mail box, blow the back out and flatten the box all in about 1 second.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 6, 2011

Sounds like she didn't learn all the safety procedures to be qualified to pull you out. You could have been seriously injured. Mrs. B&D should have to follow your safety rules and read the manuals just like everyone else is supposed to. Dave

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